Food Photo Postcard Swap

I happen to be a major photo foodie - I love taking pictures of the food I eat at restaurants (the way they plate food sometimes is GORGEOUS!), the food I make, or even pictures of creating the recipe in progress. And they aren't necessarily just meals I photograph, I've even created a cool postcard from a picture of just cucumbers...

1. You will have 1 partner.

2. Take a close up photo of some food item(s) you find interesting. Try to think outside the box, don't just take a picture of a hamburger from one of those fast food joints - that's boring, don't you think? Think about the final product, your postcard, as one you would actually want to purchase and keep in your collection.

3. Create a postcard with that photo. Please, please, do a nice job. I've received photo postcards where there's dried glue that leaked out the side, or the photo and the card it's attached to aren't lined up properly. That is so disappointing.

4. Mail your postcard in an envelope.

5. You must have a minimum 4.9 rating to join the swap and no drama over ratings or flaked swaps in the last 6 months. I will check the forums before assigning partners and will remove you if that's the case.

6. *You must have a minimum of 5 Type 3 Swaps completed to join.

That's it, peeps! Get snapping and creating - have fun!

P.S. The way I make my postcards is as follows, I have had supreme luck making them this way so if you're interested in a new way of making them, have at it.

I use a heavier paper called Bristol to attach my photos to and I use an adhesive spray called "Aleene's Crystal Clear, Acid Fee, Tacky Spray". I spray the back of the photo(s) and then spray the Bristol paper (I tend to make about 3 or 4 postcards at a time so as not to waste the paper).

I let both sit for about a minute, then press the photo(s) on the paper and let everything dry for at least an hour. Then I take a metal ruler (less likely to shift as most metal rulers have a cork back on them, plus they're less likely to warp like wood rulers so you're nearly always guaranteed a straight edge) and an Exacto knife to carefully cut my postcards out. Ta da!